Police seek tips in Clawson burglary

CLAWSON -- Police are seeking tips as they try to solve a burglary at a party store.

An alarm alerted police to a break-in at the Beverage House party store about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Police Lt. Scott Sarvello said police are in the process of trying to locate any available surveillance video tape.

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The store is at 134 N. Rochester Road, just north of 14 Mile Road.

When police responded to the alarm they found someone had broken a padlock on a security gate and broke into the store.

"There was no one there when officers arrived," Sarvello said. "It appeared that the registers were broken into."

About $50 in cash was missing, police said.

The alarm at the store was audible and police believe whoever broke into the store fled quickly after breaking into the cash registers.

Sarvello said there have been other business burglaries in nearby cities in recent days where doors were damaged, but he is unsure whether those cases are connected to the burglary in Clawson.

A cellphone store on West Nine Mile Road in Oak Park was burglarized Monday after someone broke in through a metal side door. It was the second time that store, Wireless Metro PCS, was burglarized within a week. Oak Park police are still seeking suspects.

About 90 minutes after the Clawson burglary, a man attempted to burglarize a gas station in Southfield but failed to gain entry after smashing glass out of a front door, police said.

A surveillance video showed a man in a dark jacket with something covering his face trying to break into the gas station. He drove off in a dark colored pickup truck with an extended cab, possibly a Chevrolet or a GMC, police said.

In Clawson police as yet have no description to go on.

However, Sarvello cautioned that business owners should remove cash from their registers after they close and leave the drawers pulled out.

"That way thieves can see there is nothing there," he said. "If they are looking for a quick hit they will usually just move on."

Anyone with information about the burglary at the Beverage House party store is asked to call Clawson Police at 248-435-5000.